Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe.

The theme of Robert Justin Goldstein's Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe (London: Macmillan, 1989; pp. xx + 232. |pounds~35) has been neglected in the past. Historians have a habit of saying that 'press censorship was imposed', or 'relaxed', or 'lifted', without explaining what these generalized comments mean in detail. In his short but highly readable and often entertaining book, Professor Goldstein analyses the different kinds of censorship which were imposed in various European countries throughout the 'long nineteenth century'. In particular he distinguishes between 'prior censorship', by laws which prevented publication of whole …